In recent years, a growing number of countries have been committing to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), whereby all people receive the health services they need of good quality, without risk of financial hardship. UHC is also an agreed target in the Sustainable Development Goals, with the potential to tie together the other health targets and facilitate a more integrated and harmonised approach to implementation. Efforts are underway to improve monitoring of progress towards UHC at global and country levels, and the time is ripe to seize opportunities to strengthen multi-stakeholder mechanisms for accountability for progress towards UHC.

Universal health coverage and access represents a platform to advance family planning and the FP2020 goals. However, stewardship from the public sector is critical. Speakers will explore the intersection of financing, policy, and accountability as countries move into universal access for Family Planning in the new post-2015 era.
Moderator: Jonathan D. Quick, President and CEO, Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
Panelists:
Chris Baryomunsi, Minister of Health, Uganda
Nicholas Muraguri, Principal Secretary for the Ministry of Health, Kenya (invited)

Join MSH at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town, South Africa from September 30th – October 3rd! We will be participating in multiple sessions throughout the week to participate in the presentations and discussions of people-centered health systems. Visit us at booth 21 in the Marketplace and follow our conference blog on Twitter and Facebook for live updates from Cape Town.
We are hosting two satellite sessions on Monday, September 29th. Click here to register.

With maternal mortality and other women’s health targets among those lagging furthest behind in the soon-to-expire Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), new thinking is needed to better address gender-based health inequities. At the same time, universal health coverage is expected to figure prominently in any post-MDG development framework.

The Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health (the Forum), November 9-13, 2013, brings together over 1,500 policy makers, experts, and advocates in the health workforce field, and frontline health workers in Recife, Brazil. This year's theme addresses the foundation of universal health coverage and the post-2015 development agenda: "Rising to the grand challenge of human resources for health."
Join us at these side sessions, high-level roundtable with our President and CEO Jonathan D. Quick, and our booth in the marketplace!
Follow updates on the conference blog.

Management Sciences for Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Harvard Medical School are hosting an event - “Medicines as Part of Universal Health Coverage: Starting a Dialogue”, to be held in Washington, DC, June 2 to 4, 2013. This technical workshop will explore issues relating to inclusion of medicines as part of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) schemes.
We will be providing a live webcast of key plenary sessions and invite you to view the dialogue here:
https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1069982/events/2138045

Please join Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and our partners during these featured events at Women Deliver 2013.SPECIAL EVENTSWomen Deliver and MSH Career FairWe are proud to partner with Women Deliver to host a career fair on Wednesday, May 29.